Lucy Westcott/James W. Foley Emergencies Research Associate
Lucy Westcott joined CPJ as a James W. Foley Emergencies Research Associate in 2018 and was appointed Emergencies Director in October 2021. Prior to joining CPJ, Westcott was a staff writer for Newsweek, where she covered gender and immigration. She has reported for outlets including The Intercept, Bustle, The Atlantic, and Women Under Siege, and was a United Nations correspondent for the Inter Press Service.
Why going solo is a risk for female reporters in the US and Canada
In June 2016, an attacker was terrorizing women on a jogging path in Edmonton, Canada. A video journalist at a large Canadian broadcaster was assigned to cover the story on the night shift. Multiple sexual assaults had been reported and the man was still at-large.
Why newsrooms need a solution to end online harassment of reporters
Stef Schrader was on vacation in Germany last year when spam messages started to flood her inbox. Seeing random emails from Macy’s—and job alerts for the position of “Chief Idiot”—she realized someone had signed her work email up to dozens of email lists.